posted 13 October 2001 01:55 PM
We have intercepted several of your Flood Control communiques. We believe these messages are coded to provide instructions to operatives acting on your behalf in seeking to overthrow the state.

We demand you halt and desist in propagating these messages. Failure to do so will result in something unpleasant. We don't know what. But it will be unpleasant. How unpleasant? Think coming home from a long vacation and discovering you had forgot to put out the trash containing leftovers unpleasant. If that is not unpleasant enough for you, we can be more unpleasant. We represent a large group of very unpleasant people.

posted 13 October 2001 02:10 PM
But Lucid, we don't have states here; we have provinces -- pro/vin/ces. You an American?
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Debra
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posted 13 October 2001 02:15 PM
Are you a member of the CIA ( Canada is America) or the FBI ( For Big Industry)?
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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 02:18 PM
Look, it is hard enough delivering an ultimatum and thinking up something really unpleasant, and I mean really, really unpleasant -- like discovering no toliet paper in a public bathroom after a bad Thai food experience unpleasant -- without all these questions.

All enquiries about our organization should be directed toward our leader. but I warn you, she is a very, very unpleasant person. Michelle, these people have questions.

posted 13 October 2001 02:24 PM
What do you mean unpleasant like your mom showing naked baby pictures,or finding half a worm in your apple, or washing yourself with one of those little hotel soaps when suddenly it goes missing and you didn't hear it drop?

And no, more unpleasant. Like walking out of an adults only toy store when the theft alarm goes off. Or taking someone's seat on a bus and then slowly discovering a warm, wet feeling. That kind of unpleasant.

posted 13 October 2001 02:34 PM
Like finally getting to third base with your girlfriend and finding out you have A LOT more in common than you thought.
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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:35 PM
bL, are you feeling unwelcome? Because we can address that condition ...

quote: Like finally getting to third base with your girlfriend and finding out you have A LOT more in common than you thought.

Yes, that kind of unpleasant. Are you a member of our organization. Would you like to be?

quote: bL, are you feeling unwelcome? Because we can address that condition ...

This is not relevant. All that matters is the Damn Flood Control. It must stop. Or there will be consequences. Like the type of unpleasantness illustrated above.
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posted 13 October 2001 02:47 PM

quote:Yes, that kind of unpleasant. Are you a member of our organization. Would you like to be?

posted 13 October 2001 03:00 PM
Mandos isn't here right now. I don't know when he'll be back. Sometimes we talk, and then we don't talk for a while. But then we always talk again, and then we stop for a while. It's hard to explain, but I don't think it has "consequences."

Pleasant or unpleasant: well, that's another hard one for me, because it can be pleasant in different kinds of ways, y'know? There's the straightforward way, and then there's the schadenfreude kind of way, and then there are the other ways. It's like, um -- ah, what was the question?

posted 13 October 2001 05:47 PM
I don't know about you guys but I'm scared by the LACK of LUCIDITY here...and how much is membership in the organization? I'm a joiner.
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Zeratul
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posted 14 October 2001 09:24 AM
Before bL disappeared I got another message asking to join their organization. I declined but did manage to steal this information.

bein' Lucid seen here... and it's leader seen here... have made a new bot that will moderate us babblers, the moderaters, and also moderate the moderaters moderating the posts (say THAT 12 times fast).The bot is seen here... If found guilty of using the coded messages entiled Damn Flood Control this second bot seen here... will deal with them accordingly.

This message will self-dustruct in 5...4...3...2...1 BBBBOOOOOOOOMMMMDamn flood control

posted 14 October 2001 06:52 PM
Thank you, Lucid. I don't think there is any need for questions. I simply have this demand. Turn off the flood control. There will be no negotiations. We have made it clear from the start that the flood control is wrong. It is an assault against freedom. We will not compromise. Turn it off now, or there will be very unpleasant consequences. Like the ones that Lucid outlined.
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meades
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posted 14 October 2001 07:59 PM
Michelle- may I join your group of disinchanted revolutionaries?

posted 14 October 2001 09:02 PM
post reply this is.......then go back and post another reply flood control. You'll soon see what it is.
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JCL
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posted 15 October 2001 12:38 AM
LotusGrrl - Flood control, in short, is to prevent someone making multiple posts within seconds. Such as a chatroom where some one will fill up a screen with the same message.
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audra trower williams
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posted 15 October 2001 12:43 AM
And I have a little theory that reading a thread and replying to it should take at least 2 minutes. And I'm a fascist.
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WingNut
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posted 15 October 2001 01:24 AM
Why haven't I noticed you at the meetings?

posted 15 October 2001 02:10 AM
Hey, can I help it if I can type over 80 wpm and I'm on a cable modem? Damn flood control...can't it keep up with me?
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meades
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posted 15 October 2001 02:14 AM
80! HOLY HEAVEN! The best I could ever do was 60! And I thought I was speeding! I can't even picture over 80! Jebus!
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DrConway
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posted 15 October 2001 02:18 AM
I average at 75.
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WingNut
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posted 15 October 2001 02:21 AM
I average at 180. But 60 if it is going to make any sense.

posted 15 October 2001 02:28 AM
When I was taking journalism, I was cruising at around 48 wpm. In my younger days in high school I cruised at around the high 60s wpm.
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Debra
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posted 15 October 2001 07:21 AM
I took a course to be a leagal sectretary for one semester and you had to type 120 words a minute minimum to pass.
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I mean, deeply opposed though I remain on principled and ideological grounds to his worldview, I will admit to having felt some grudging admiration at first for a worthy opponent. But just look at what's happened to this thread. I thought he'd been delegated to impose some discipline: you call this disciplined? It's wandering all over the place ...

Meanwhile, bein' Lucid seems to have wandered himself, over to some thread about hippie enlightenment, where he's maundering on about being a Unitarian and apparently having an identity crisis or something. You expect us to engage in heroic resistance against a creampuff colonial governor like that? Piffle.

posted 15 October 2001 06:16 PM
Sorry, it wasn't clear, but I was referring to myself - I was a secretary for several years before going back to school last year.
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posted 16 October 2001 01:10 PM
A simple solution gayle would be to make each post 190 words long. I type to slow for this to bother me so it looks like the dummy wins.
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LotusGrrrl
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posted 16 October 2001 01:50 PM
Well we all know we're in here to vent and/or to give our two cents worth. Some of us can't help it if we're fast. Does that mean we enjoy quickies? Okay......thread drift...guilty !!!!
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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 01:56 PM
Evidently, LotusGrrrl, you missed the original flood control/Sixty Minute Man thread. Well, it's forgiveable, you're new around here.
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"It ain't what you do/it's the way that you do it/that's what gets results."

Whatever happened to Bananarama, anyway? Ahead of their time, I say.

[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: 'lance ]

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LotusGrrrl
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posted 16 October 2001 02:06 PM
Trying to bring it back full circle here, has anyone noticed that the flood control 120 seconds is not always 120 seconds? I've been timing it. I think it has flood control preference!
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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 02:39 PM
Ah, but once you get up into the empyrean realms of DrConway & co. (what co., he's head, shoulders and chest above we mere mortals), that "120 seconds" gets shorter and shorter, and finally approaches 0, albeit asymptotically. Out of admirable democratic sentiment, he keeps up the pretence that it still affects him.

Yikes. 1386 posts and counting, and around 1347 of them frivolous fluff. If my boss could see me now...

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bein' Lucid
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posted 16 October 2001 03:37 PM
Full circle is back to the initial warning about flood control.

You call yourselves revolutionaries? Revolutionaries do not care about typing speed.Revolutionaries concern themselves with greater issues like flood control.

I have warned the battle authorities about this flood control to no avail. They pretend they do not hear. Now it is time for a taste of the unpleasantness that will follow if action is not taken immediately.

The following unpleasantness is only mildly unpleasant. Unpleasant enough to get the attention of the babble authorities. Not so unpleasant as to wreak permanent damage.

posted 16 October 2001 03:53 PM
Dig the graphic. He's a bit knock-kneed for those stockings, tho'. (As am I -- guess it'll have to be below the knee for me. Sigh).

So obsession with typing speed is counter-revolutionary? I could buy that, especially as I'm not sure I could manage 50.

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posted 16 October 2001 03:59 PM
Hey, I had that as one of my "links of the day" on my little family website a month or two ago. Click on the Elton John link - it's a hilarious rendition of "Rocket Man" by Shatner. It's only mildly unpleasant compared to the consequences of keeping flood control active, though.
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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 04:04 PM
Didja see Shatner's "I Am Canadian" rant on Just for Laughs a while ago? Brilliant, whether or not he wrote it.

Best part -- his "I! Don't! Speak! Every! Word! Like! A! Sentence!" Brought the house down.

Or "I've acted at Carnegie Hall in New York! The Royal Albert Hall in London! And the extinct Monkton Theatre in NDG!"

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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2001 04:08 PM
I love William Shatner. I just think he's such a cool guy. Talk about making an entire second career out of being a parody of yourself.

One of my favorite Shatner times was when he was on SNL and told all the Trekkies at the convention to "get a life". I'll bet he got some flak for that one.

Leonard Nimoy has done a few of those speaking-type songs too, I think, but it just isn't Shatner, you know?

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quote:('lance, Cleo Laine does a great version of 'taint whatcha do ... Know it?)

I do not, but I'll have to check it out. Especially as our smaller, grey cat is named Cleo -- after Ms Laine, natch.

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skdadl
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posted 16 October 2001 05:54 PM
(Do you think I'm being a little too hard on bein' L there? I mean, the poor guy, working for Michelle and all ... Should I cut him some slack?)
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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2001 05:59 PM
SILENCE! I will not have my employees maligned by the likes of Skdadl. One more outburst like that from you, and I will be forced to hack into babble's administrator function, and program "Disco Duck" to play continuously whenever the babble window is open.

You have been warned.

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quote:SILENCE! I will not have my employees maligned by the likes of Skdadl. One more outburst like that from you, and I will be forced to hack into babble's administrator function, and program "Disco Duck" to play continuously whenever the babble window is open.

Bah. And BAH! again, I say. You wouldn't be so tough -- or fascist -- were you not at Queen's.

You're bluffing anyway, and I'm calling it, but even if you're not, bring it on! We're tougher than you, and besides it'll only lead to escalation.

Yes -- I'm coding a virus, which I'll implant in the next PM you get -- not necessarily from me.

The instant you open it, your sound card will cycle randomly among "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've Got Love In My Tummy)," "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd," (I'm not making that up -- I couldn't), "The Battle of New Orleans," "The Ballad of the Green Berets," and some Britney Spears to be determined later, every time you turn your computer on or off, log onto the net, or even so much as move your mouse.

Forewarned!

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posted 16 October 2001 06:21 PM
I see your Roger Miller and I raise you a Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias!
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vaudree
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posted 16 October 2001 06:27 PM
What about "Snoopy and the Red Baron: "ten-twenty thirty fourty fifty or more...came and tried aimed and died now their burried all together on the country-side," Polk-mon by Weird Al, or that Pledge of Allegance we will have to soon start learning and repeating each morning if his Bushiness has his way.
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bein' Lucid
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posted 16 October 2001 06:34 PM
How dare you speak to the leader like that you babble authoratarian. So far we have not been very unpleasant. So far the leader has not been very unpleasant. So far the flood control remains.

Now this 'lance threatens the esteemed leader of the movement and this skdadl threatens myself with the terrible torture of tickling. How dare you. You have been warned. We raise the stakes.

quote:I see your Roger Miller and I raise you a Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias!

See your Nelson and Iglesias, raise you a Charles Aznavour and a Max Bygraves.

quote:How dare you speak to the leader like that you babble authoratarian.

Authoritarian? Rubbish. It's the Babble Authoritories, comfortably ensconced in their Babbleburo, or swanning around on bourgeois water-craft, who have become the authoritarians.

Once revolutionaries themselves, they've become -- counter-revolutionaries! Bad music, computer viruses and tickling are the People's Tactics! To the barricades, babble proletarians! You have nothing to lose but your Flood Control! You have a board to win!

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posted 17 October 2001 12:39 AM
Has anyone seen the new star trek? I've been working to hard for the revolution to catch it. Damn flood control and solidarity through slurpies comrad.
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posted 17 October 2001 01:28 AM
Sorry to have to do that. But you were warned. And it will only get more unpleasant.
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'lance
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posted 17 October 2001 01:59 AM
How's that unpleasant? I like turtles, and for that matter people in turtle costumes. Who doesn't? Show us more!
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posted 17 October 2001 07:18 AM
I haven't changed any of the settings. And I'm closing this long and tiring thread.
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